Get in the Game

Saturdays are your chance to "Get in the Game" with Jill Byrne as she hosts racing industry personalities for an informal seminar in the Paddock area.

Each seminar will feature meet-and-greets and a short question and answer session with special guests.

Jill's special guest this Saturday, November 7, is John Asher. "Get in the Game" begins at 11:50 a.m. in the Paddock area.

Boutique Bazaar

This is the Louisville boutique warehouse sale not to be missed!

Get clearance prices from your favorite area shops, great gifts for your girlfriends and enjoy creative concoctions from Chambord Liqueur all in one location.

Horses, handbags, great fashion and baubles...Ladies, who could ask for more?

Thorntons "Ladies Weekend" Gas Card Giveaway

Come out to Churchill Downs for Ladies Weekend (Saturday and Sunday, November 14-15) and enter for your chance to win one of twenty $250 gas cards provided by Thorntons! Ten gas cards will be given out on each day.  Sign up at the Thorntons booth located in the Paddock area next to Gate 17.

Click here for Official Rules.

"Ladies First" Racing Seminar & Breakfast

Calling all ladies for this exclusive racing seminar that will give you the edge when picking your fillies!

The seminar is for ladies of all ages and will take place from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. with a sneak peek of the Ladies Boutique Bazaar scheduled from 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (Gentlemen are welcome to attend as well.)

Jill Byrne will moderate the event and will be joined by Jennie Rees, Maggi Moss, and P.J. Cooksey.

Demarcation Rallies to Win Ack Ack Handicap

The Amerman Racing Stables’ Demarcation rallied from far off the pace to score a 1 ½-length victory over Glamour Guy to win the 17th running of the $111,000 Ack Ack Handicap (Grade III) at Churchill Downs.

Au Moon Wins Friday's Upside Therapeutic Riding Center Purse

Tim Brown and Phil Gahm’s Au Moon collared Whitley in deep stretch to win Thursday’s $48,191 Upside Therapeutic Riding Center Purse at Churchill Downs by a head.

Friday Happy Hours Get New Look in Refurbished Paddock Pavilion

When Churchill Downs’ popular “Dress to Impress” Friday Happy Hours, sponsored by Budweiser Select, return for a three-week run on Nov. 6, the event will have a new look and feel, thanks to the same designer who helped transform the historic racetrack into Louisville’s ultimate nighttime hot spot for three nights of racing this spring.

Swift Temper, One Caroline Top Chilukki Field; Payton d'Oro to be Final Starter for Trainer Larry Jones

The presence of Mark Stanley’s Grade I winner Swift Temper and the return to the races of G. Watts Humphrey Jr. and the Louise Ireland Humphrey Revocable Trust-2008’s One Caroline serve as the main attention grabbers for Saturday’s 24th running of the $150,000-added Chilukki (Grade II). But the story of the race figures to be Payton d’Oro, who is scheduled to be the final starter for Kentucky-born trainer Larry Jones.

Breeders' Cup World Championships Simulcast at Churchill Downs Nov. 6-7

For the first time since 1999, the Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be simulcast during Churchill Downs’ Fall Meet. Racing’s year-end global championship event, which consists of 14 races and $25.5 million in prize money, will be run at Southern California’s Santa Anita on Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7. Churchill Downs admission gates will open at 11:30 a.m. (all times Eastern) on Nov. 6-7 with the first of 10 live races scheduled for 12:40 p.m. each day.